Word: metallism
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...answer to the third question will require more time: How was such a production of the precious metals economically possible under the law controlling the value of money? That law is: The more freely gold, say, in any given interval of time, is produced, and the longer that production is carried on, the less, other things being equal, becomes the motive to continued production on the same scale. The new metal going into circulation drowns the mines, or all but the mines. Such is the economic condition under which the production of the precious metals is carried...
...Bruce photographic telescope, which is to be transferred to the station at Arequipa, Peru, is nearly ready for shipment, and will probably start on its journey Saturday, December 14. The heavy metal castings and machinery, tubes, etc., will be sent to New York by the Metropolitan steamer. The lenses, consisting of four lenses and two prisms each 24 inches in diameter, will be shipped to New York by rail. As the greatest care has to be used in moving these lenses, even though they are most securely packed and protected, Mr. Willard P. Gerrish will accompany them to New York...
From the hall, just before entering the study room, is a door leading to the library. This room is provided with iron racks and adjustable shelves. The windows looking out into the hall are made of fire-proof glass. The material is a novelty. The metal while in the molten state has been poured over a wire screen, so that if a fire should break out the flames could not crack the glass...
...silver as money is most desirable. - (a) Silver and gold the only suitable money metals: Mill, bk. III, ch. 8. - (b) Gold is insufficient: see above I, (a) 1. - (c) Silver in relation to commodities a more stable standard than gold: Amer. Jour. Soc. Sci. XXXII, 27; Sen. Stewart in Cong. Record, XXV, App. 158-159 - (d) Silver and gold together a non-fluctuating standard: McCulloch, p. 21. - (e) Silver will eventually become standard money metal of the world. - (1) Exhaustion of gold mines. - (2) Increased use of gold in the arts: Suess, 100-101. - (f) Present suspicion of silver...
...purposes of poetry our language has gained by the infusion of Latin. It has become a kind of Corinthian metal richer than any one of its compounds taken by itself or all of them together before they have been fused into the glowing amalgam. In the experiments made for casting Big Ben, the great bell for the Westminster tower, it has been found that the superstition that it was the presence of silver in larger proportion which gave the remarkable sweetness of tone to certain of the old bells had no foundation in fact. It was the skilful proportions with...